Every moment and every event of every man's life onearth plants something in his soul.- Thomas Merton

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not preventme enjoying open-air life,with plants and animals.- Georg Brandes

Give the children an opportunity to make garden.Let them grow what they will.It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.- Liberty Hyde Bailey

Although native Africans domesticated some plants inthe Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa,they acquired valuable domestic animals only later,from the north.- Jared Diamond

Nations, like plants and human beings,grow.And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.- Claude McKay

I'm no interior decorator, but just I have a feelingthat plastic plants in the bathroom...probably not a good idea.- Kyan Douglas

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;who sows a field,or trains a flower, or plants a tree,is more than all.- John Greenleaf Whittier

I hardly have any spare time!But when I do, I garden a lot - I love plants and flowers.- Soundarya

I, in fact, have been involved in the constructionof and the management of wastewater treatment plants.- Jeff Miller

The problems in California have been that it's beenvery difficult to site and build new power plants.- Kenneth Lay

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.- William Cowper

So it was flawed in that it didn't require Californiato have a first claim on the power plants.It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.- Gray Davis

The California crunch really is the result of not enoughpower-generating plants and then not enough power topower the power of generating plants.- George W. Bush

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul,to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience,for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.- David Hobson

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals;I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.- A. Whitney Brown

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall.I can build more power plants.In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.- Gray Davis

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imaginationto harvest the wheat of art.- Austin O'Malley

While it is true that we must seek value added industrieslike food processing plants and call center operations,we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.- Alan Autry

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures,the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations -each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy,bound together by cosmic harmony.- Ruth Bernhard

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus.It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants thanabout animals that endanger people and livestock.- Gale Norton

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination.The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.- Muhammad Iqbal

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicatecreeper has found its strong wall,we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.- Anthony Trollope

A garden requires patient labor and attention.Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.They thrive because someone expended effort on them.- Liberty Hyde Bailey

This evidence is overwhelming at this point.You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff,you live longer.- Mark Bittman

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plantsare a continuum and that the wheel of garden historywill always be coming full circle.- Francis Cabot Lowell

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importancewith the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums,which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.- Robert Fortune

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with.Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.- Richard Leakey

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself.He plants it for posterity.- Alexander Smith

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is -flawed as it is -and we're counting on getting more power plants online by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.- Gray Davis

I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots,stems, bark, branches and foliage that reached up toward the light.But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.- Edward Steichen

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problemthat requires a national response.- Tom Allen

The difference is that for a soundly conceived andsolidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longerfor those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.- Robert Welch

Natural abilities are like natural plants,that need pruning by study; and studies themselvesdo give forth directions too much at large,except they be bounded in by experience.- Francis Bacon

We made a demand for the the same wage rates to bepaid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S.plants.- Leonard Woodcock

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and,if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports amuch greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.- Ellsworth Huntington

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another'sbreast is to become a principal in the mischief.- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds.A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship,and he who plants kindness gathers love.- Saint Basil

Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes,spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.- Marilyn vos Savant

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all usefulanimals that I possibly could into this part of Australia,but also the most valuable plants of every description.- George Grey

Plants that wake when others sleep.Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day,but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secretout to every breeze that roams about.- Thomas Moore

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.- Barbara McClintock

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognizeadvances in irrigation technology and practices thatproduce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.- Jim Costa

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around.An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.- Terence McKenna

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains,water, trees and flowers.One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body,of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.- Egon Schiele

The chip comes from silicon foundries who have beenrunning their plants for the past fifty years,understand mass manufacture, and are the area thatis most likely to understand the volume increase problem.- Mike Marsh

It looks as though yields of over 10 times what wecan currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration,the humidity, the temperature, all the various factorsthat plants depend on to grow rapidly.- Ralph Merkle

I like people who are still actively creating in their life,who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set.And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse.I don't have any plants or pets or kids.I can lock the door and go.I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay.- Dana Delany

That's not all our crops can do.We are also learning how to transform plants into factories.We can now raise plants that will create enzymes thatwould otherwise be created in chemical factories.- Thomas Carper

What you compose with is neither here nor there,you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees,or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer,or whatever.- Ian Hamilton Finlay

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinousforms which are not sufficiently differentiated tobe distinctively either plant or animal,while, as respects ordinary plants and animals,the difficulty of laying down a definition has becomefar greater than ever before.- Asa Gray

The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide varietyof plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuaryin North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.- Dan Lipinski

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease,which had been authorized by Washington,that I thought were not justified for their war effort.They wanted them for postwar use.- W. Averell Harriman